Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis